Paul Grandgeorge
Soft Matter Experimentalist

Flexible Structures Laboratory
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Lausanne, Switzerland

tel: +41 21 69 32781


e-mail: paul.grandgeorge (-atat-) epfl.ch
Hello!

I am a postdoctoral associate in the flexLab (Flexible Structures Laboratory) at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), currently working on the mechanics of elastic knots.

I performed my Ph.D. at Sorbonne Université working at the ∂'Alembert Institute on elasto-capillary interactions between elastic fibers and liquid drops.

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Research Interests I thank the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-14-CE07-0023-01) for funding my PhD. thesis.
Short CV

Paul Grandgeorge
Born march 15th 1991
French

2018-now Postdoctoral associate at the flexLab (Flexible Structures Laboratory), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland)
2015-2018 Ph.D. thesis in Mechanics at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris (France)
3 years - Supervisors: Sébastien Neukirch and Arnaud Antkowiak
2009-2014 Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering , Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland)
5 years
2014 Research engineer, Internship, Electro-medical systems, Nyon (Switzerland)
6 months - Supervisors: Marcel Donnet and Eric Boillat
2011-2012 Erasmus exchange year, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona (Spain)
1 year

Detailed CV:

Publications

2018
P. Grandgeorge, N. Krins, A. Hourlier-Fargette, C. Laberty, S. Neukirch and A. Antkowiak
Capillarity-induced folds fuel extreme shape changes in thin wicked membranes
Science, 360 (2018), 6386, 296-299. [more info]
D. Moulton, P. Grandgeorge, S. Neukirch
Stable elastic knots with no self-contact
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 116 (2018), 33-53. [more info]
P. Grandgeorge - Ph.D. Thesis
Surface-tension induced buckling of thin fibers and fibrous membranes: a novel strategy to design stretchable materials (2018)
∂'Alembert Institute, Sorbonne Université [PDF]


2017
P. Grandgeorge, S. Neukirch et A. Antkowiak
Une fibre auxiliaire souple pour l'enroulement élasto-capillaire d'une fibre fonctionnelle dure
Comptes-rendus de la Rencontre du Non-Linéaire (march 2017). [plus d'info]
P. Grandgeorge , A. Antkowiak and S. Neukirch
Auxiliary soft beam for the amplification of the elasto-capillary coiling: towards stretchable electronics
Advances in colloids and interfaces (accepted september 2017, in press). [more info]
H. Elettro, P. Grandgeorge and S. Neukirch
Elastocapillary coiling of an elastic rod inside a drop
Journal of elasticity, 127 (2017), 235–247. [more info]

Talks and Public Outreach

2017
Society of Engineering Science (SES) 54th Annual Technical Meeting, Boston (USA)
Self-assembled surface reservoirs for ultra-stretchable membranes [PDF]
Rencontres du non-linéaire 2017, Paris (France)
Une fibre auxiliaire pour l'enroulement élasto-capillaire de fibres fonctionnelles
Poster [PDF]

2016
Experimental conference at the Espace Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, ESPCI Paris (France)
La soie de capture de l'araignée: gluante, liquide et solide à la fois
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Meeting with young students working on their personal initiative project.
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MicroMast: 1st International Conference on Multiscale Applications of Surface Tension, Bruxelles (Belgium)
Liquid wires – coiling rigid microfibers inside liquid droplets [PDF]
Euromech Colloquium 569: Multiscale Modeling of Textile and Fibrous Materials, Châtenay-Malabry (France)
Liquid Wires - Fiber coiling inside a droplet provides highly compressible device [PDF]
Rencontres du non-linéaire 2016, Paris (France)
Elasto-capillary coiling leads to the fabrication of over-extensible fibers
Poster: french [PDF] - english [PDF]

2015
E=m6 : French scientific vulgarisation TV-show.
Hommes vs animaux: le match!
[video]

Gallery
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